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Chapter 17
Bernward Janzing
a
and Jan Oelker
b
a
Freiburg i.Br./Baden Würtemberg, Germany
b
Radebeul/Sachsen, Germany
The development of modern wind power in Germany began in
the research institutes for aviation in Stuttgart. After World War II
and after the oil crisis of the 1970s, the vital impulses for the use
of wind energy came from the community around Professor Ulrich
Hütter. With their research on the field of rotor blade aerodynamics
and the composite construction principle Hütter with his students
and associates at the University of Stuttgart and at the German
Test and Research Institute for Aviation and Space Flight (Deutsche
Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt DFVLR)
built the foundation for design and construction of rotor blades
.
17.1
The Lack of Energy
It came as a shock wave. Heiner Dörner, lecturer at the Institute of
Aircraft Construction of the University of Stuttgart remembers the
The chapter is an abbreviated excerpt from the first chapter of the topic
Windgesichter—Aufbruch der Windenergie in Deutschland
, Sonnenbuchverlag,
2005.
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